Joydeep Biswas
Associate Professor
Leads the Autonomous Mobile Robotics Lab, working on perception, planning, long-term autonomy and failure recovery for mobile robots.
Joydeep Biswas's lab at UT Austin works on planning, control & multi-robot systems, robot perception & SLAM and embodied & active vision. 54 papers since 2023, 31 at top venues, mostly ICRA and RA-L. 8 PhD students. 23 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 14/ year
- at T1 venues
- 57%
- PhD students
- 8
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 23
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 12 papers2026 · T1 10 · collecting
- 19 papers2025 · T1 9
- 15 papers2024 · T1 8
- 8 papers2023 · T1 4
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICRA, RA-L, AAAI, CoRL, Artificial Intelligence
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Planning, control & multi-robot systems20 papers
- Robot perception & SLAM17 papers
- Embodied & active vision2 papers
- mobile2 papers
- mobile robotics0 papers
Paper list
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202612 papers
- ICRA (T1)BEV-Patch-PF: Particle Filtering with BEV-Aerial Feature Matching for Off-Road Geo-Localization (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) Blue Sky Ideas TrackCoadaptive Value Alignment (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)COMPASS: Cross-Embodiment Mobility Policy via Residual RL and Skill Synthesis (opens in a new tab)
- HRI (T1)GuideNav: User-Informed Development of a Vision-Only Robotic Navigation Assistant for Blind Travelers (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)GuideTWSI: A Diverse Tactile Walking Surface Indicator Dataset from Synthetic and Real-World Images for Blind and Low-Vision Navigation (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and EngineeringHEIGHT: Heterogeneous Interaction Graph Transformer for Robot Navigation in Crowded and Constrained Environments (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Human-Centered Development of Guide Dog Robots: Quiet and Stable Locomotion Control (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Learning Agile Striker Skills for Humanoid Soccer Robots from Noisy Sensory Input (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)OVerSeeC: Open-Vocabulary CostMap Generation from Satellite Images and Natural Language (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Searching in Space and Time: Unified Memory-Action Loops for Open-World Object Retrieval (opens in a new tab)
- AAAI (T1)The Essentials of AI for Life and Society: A Full-Scale AI Literacy Course Accessible to All (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)VENTURA: Adapting Image Diffusion Models for Unified Task Conditioned Navigation (opens in a new tab)
202519 papers
- CAVAutomata Learning from Preference and Equivalence Queries (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LCLOVER: Context-Aware Long-Term Object Viewpoint- and Environment-Invariant Representation Learning (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL (T1)ComposableNav: Instruction-Following Navigation in Dynamic Environments via Composable Diffusion (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)ConfigBot: Adaptive Resource Allocation for Robot Applications in Dynamic Environments (opens in a new tab)
- RSS (T1)CREStE: Scalable Mapless Navigation with Internet Scale Priors and Counterfactual Guidance (opens in a new tab)
- Autonomous RobotsDeadlock-free, Safe, and Decentralized Multi-Robot Navigation in Social Mini-Games via Discrete-Time Control Barrier Functions (opens in a new tab)
- GMCVGuiding Diffusion with Deep Geometric Moments: Balancing Fidelity and Variation (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Multi-Agent Inverse Reinforcement Learning in Real World Unstructured Pedestrian Crowds (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LPACER: Preference-Conditioned All-Terrain Costmap Generation (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Transactions on Human-Robot InteractionPrinciples and Guidelines for Evaluating Social Robot Navigation Algorithms (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational LinguisticsReasoningWeekly: A General Knowledge and Verbal Reasoning Challenge for Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)ReMEmbR: Building and Reasoning Over Long-Horizon Spatio-Temporal Memory for Robot Navigation (opens in a new tab)
202415 papers
- RA-LDeploying and Evaluating LLMs to Program Service Mobile Robots (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Dynamic model predictive shielding for provably safe reinforcement learning (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Intelligent VehiclesF1TENTH: Enhancing Autonomous Systems Education Through Hands-On Learning and Competition (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Looking Inside Out: Anticipating Driver Intent from Videos (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LObVi-SLAM: Long-Term Object-Visual SLAM (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LProgrammatic Imitation Learning From Unlabeled and Noisy Demonstrations (opens in a new tab)
- PACMPL (T1)Programming-by-Demonstration for Long-Horizon Robot Tasks (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Rethinking Social Robot Navigation: Leveraging the Best of Two Worlds (opens in a new tab)
- iSpaRoSemantic Masking and Visual Feature Matching for Robust Localization (opens in a new tab)
- AAAI (T1)SOCIALGYM 2.0: Simulator for Multi-Robot Learning and Navigation in Shared Human Spaces (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the International FLAIRS ConferenceTeaching Robots to "Get It Right" (opens in a new tab)
- T-RO (T1)Toward Robust Robot 3-D Perception in Urban Environments: The UT Campus Object Dataset (opens in a new tab)
20238 papers
- Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems"What’s That Robot Doing Here?": Perceptions Of Incidental Encounters With Autonomous Quadruped Robots (opens in a new tab)
- Artificial Intelligence (T1)Competence-aware systems (opens in a new tab)
- Artificial Intelligence (T1)Introspective Perception for Mobile Robots (opens in a new tab)
- Educational Advances in Artificial IntelligenceResponsible Robotics: A Socio-Ethical Addition To Robotics Courses (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LSocialMAPF: Optimal and Efficient Multi-Agent Path Finding With Strategic Agents for Social Navigation (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL (T1)STERLING: Self-Supervised Terrain Representation Learning from Unconstrained Robot Experience (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)System Configuration and Navigation of a Guide Dog Robot: Toward Animal Guide Dog-Level Guiding Work (opens in a new tab)
- SSRRVisually Adaptive Geometric Navigation (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went23 listed
Apply to UT AustinFall 2027
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